Got Bluffed and can't get over it

[JJNJustin]

For the same reasons you stated in your post, if I am unsure on the river, and I have pot odds, heads up, I will make some looser than average calls, because of the possibility of it driving me nuts for hours later and causing me to make many mistakes and more unnecessary loose calls to make up for that one bad fold. Even if the loose call turns out to be -EV, making that call avoids that downward spiral into frustration that can cause you to play less than optimally, which is more -EV. Making the loose, slightly -EV call is the lesser of the two evils. Plus, I need to be totally focused on the hand I'm playing, without any distractions from previous hands. If I'm constantly dwelling on a past mistake which I no longer can do anything about, it is senselessly detracting from things I can do something about in the present.

-J

This is limit hold'em I'm speaking of. If you are talking about NL, that is completely different.